Japan is charting its own course to deal with a radically different USA president, an approach that will be tested at the end of this week when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Donald Trump in the White House and on the golf course in Florida.

Abe presented Trump with a golf driver, reportedly worth around $4,500, and met daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, both seen as having the president's ear.

Abe's proposed public-private initiative is meant to create several hundred thousand jobs, the reportssaid Thursday, and involve $150 billion in new investment in US infrastructure from Japanese government and private sources over the next decade.

Japan's PM Abe is scheduled to visit with President Trump at the White House.

Japan's government is pushing companies and investors to hand over details of their United States investment plans so Shinzo Abe can deliver a "tweetable" figure to Donald Trump when they meet this week.

"If we get along with Russian Federation and other countries - I mean, I want to get along with all countries - but if we got along with Russian Federation, if we got along with China, if we got along with Japan ... that's a good thing, not a bad thing". The game has special significance - Abe's grandfather, who was also a prime minister, played golf with President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957.

Japanese companies are complaining that Abe is asking for a plan to invest in the U.S. that exceeds companies' ability to appease Trump, the FT said.

Social Democratic Party Secretary-General Seiji Mataichi told a news conference on February 7 that the prime minister's attempts to build a good relationship with President Trump was "embarrassing" compared to European leaders who have voiced stern criticism of Trump's immigration policies.

Japan posted a trade surplus of 6.8 trillion yen with the United States last year, down 4.6 percent from 2015, but US -bound auto shipments rose for a second straight year, ministry of finance data showed month.

The Financial Times reports that executives at three top Japanese companies said government's officials had been in touch asking for investment numbers.

Separately, Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world's largest with $1.2 trillion in assets, is preparing to invest $150 billion in the United States. Japan is prepared to respond in kind, insisting the USA open up its market for public contracts and abolish import tariffs on automobiles, which would stoke the ire of American automakers.

Some experts cautioned that too subservient a response by Abe, such as a government-inspired jobs creation package, risks confirming Trump's view that old-style Japan bashing works.

After abandoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal between 12 Pacific Rim countries including the US and Japan, it's possible Trump will attempt to establish a two-way trade deal with Japan.

Japan's has responded firmly but politely, taking issue with Trump's assertions when it disagrees, but avoiding comment on issues such as the travel ban. The president said: "I don't know". "And we're not sure whether Mr. Abe is prepared for that".

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But White House spokesman Sean Spicer has said, despite the President's misgivings about the "dumb" deal , it remained alive. Turnbull went into the conversation with the mentality that "to confront a bully, you need to bully back".

Countless studies show drunk drivers tend to underestimate how much they've had to drink and whether they are "safe to drive". During the bowl campaign past year , state police handed out over 4,686 tickets and arrested 92 people for impaired driving.

This device is speculated to be arriving with Snapdragon 821 and a 5.7-inch display with 2,880×1,440 resolution. The LG G6 has gotten leaked yet again, this time in the form of another hands-on image showcasing its back.

But the officials told Reuters that the decision to place the USS Cole near Yemen was made before the recent developments. Trump tweeted Friday that "Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them".

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Apple's biggest manufacturing partner is Taiwanese giant Foxconn, which runs the biggest iPhone factory in the world in China. It will likely open with a heavy workload, as Apple shipped roughly 78 million iPhones in the last quarter alone.

The Cameroonians came from a goal down to win the tournament after Arsenal's Mohammed Elneny opened the scoring in the first half. A brilliantly taken 88th minute stunner by Vincent Abubakar won Cameroon their fifth Afcon trophy ending their 15 years wait .

I was kind of everywhere on the third and fourth but got back into it, steadied the ship and played a pretty solid back nine. After a first round without a birdie, Woods said he was fine even though he appeared to be uncomfortable at times.

But adding Mr Trump's definition of "free speech" to the list of offences would need a new law to be passed by Congress. Divisive Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos caused a furor at UC Berkeley this week, and now he is promising to return.

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